Course Outline
Class 1: Examples of what makes classic American Scroll design. We cover leaf, scroll, and border designs; ornamentation elements, backgrounds, use of loops and other elements to fill spaces, use of borders to frame scenes, embellishing leaf folds.
Class 2: Designing scrolls for rifles, pistol slides, and revolvers; filling spaces with large and small scrolls, screw hole issues, filling corners and odd places with scrolls and leaves, engraving screws, borders around screws to be avoided and areas to be enclosed, orientation of designs on firearms, borders and banners around writing, designing leaves to leave uniform background areas, revolver recoil shield and backstrap designs, cylinder designs, barrel border inlay and scrollwork
Class 3: Adding borders to re-shape engraving areas, options for filling spaces, cutting into borders, shading limits, studying period styles, leaf-ending options, shading options, leaf fold treatments, traditional uses of beading punches for backgrounds and outlines, engraving screw heads, inking backgrounds, nick-and-dot borders, designs for revolver loading gates recoil shields, and backstrap shovel heads, use of liner gravers, checkered backgrounds, and rope borders
Class 1
Class one goes over the design elements of traditional Americana scroll.
Class 2
Class two covers advanced layout of American Scroll and how to fill corners. Also extensive examples of different boarder elements.
Class 3
Class 3 goes over how to cut your design and proper shading
